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单词 sisterly
释义

sisterly

/ˈsɪst(ə)li /
adjective
Characteristic of or appropriate for a sister or sisters: sisterly affection Lizzy and Jane shared a close sisterly bond she gives Kristina sisterly advice...
  • I guess there was a little too much sisterly rivalry.
  • The lead character shows lust only for Olympic glory—the most his self-sacrificing wife gets is a sisterly peck on the cheek.
  • Her motivation was not purely sisterly concern.

Derivatives

sisterliness

/ˈsɪstəlɪnəs/ noun ...
  • She could see that it was easy to think, subliminally, of her sisterliness as something chaste and, well, unsexy.
  • Her sourness and envy are apparent in her readiness to put down Iris and her lack of sisterliness.
  • The sisterliness between the two women veils the novel's fascinating ambivalence towards different kinds of female creativity: motherhood and writing.

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